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Private detectives have been called in by the NHS in Scotland to pursue a dentist believed to have defrauded the health service of more than £750,000, it has emerged.

The case came to light as part of a BBC Scotland investigation into fraud in the Scottish health service, which reveals that the crime could be worth hundreds of millions of pounds a year — far more than previously estimated.

Stuart Craig, a dentist in Auchinleck, Ayrshire, was fined £4,000 in July last year for a scam whereby he charged the NHS for gold crowns on 81 patients between 2006 and 2011,